I experienced a strange coincidence this morning that left the hair on the back of my neck standing up.
I have a 1989 Dodge D150 that looks like death warmed over and has 340K miles on it. My MIL's boyfriend passed away and left everything to her. The truck looked like hell, didn't run, and needed to be moved. She asked if I wanted it, and I said yes. He had never gotten the thing to run more than a few weeks at a time. I found the old ratty ground cable had about 15 ohms of resistance. I fixed it for a few dollars and I've driven it for about half the mileage on the odometer. Over the years I have only fixed things that broke when said problems kept it from going down the road. I use it to haul building supplies and make runs to the land fill. That's it. Did I mention it looks like hell.
The truck has one nagging issue. The rear view mirror falls off all of the time. This is a glue on mirror. I have fixed these on several cars over the years and feel I have a pretty good handle on the process and yet, I can only keep a mirror on the windshield of this truck for a few months at a time, sometimes not even that long. I have even purchased a lighter mirror. I have used the attachment kits with proper glue, and I've also tried super glue and epoxy. I have cleaned meticulously with acetone, denatured alcohol, and the packets in various kits following the directions exactly. I'm at a loss. At this point I have just resigned myself to the fact that I will have to re-attach this mirror every few months. Last Saturday, I put the mirror on again after it had been holding on for most of the winter. I told myself I did a spectacular job and was assured it would hold forever this time.
So now the weirdness this morning. I went into my driveway from my garage and I was walking up to the truck to get a tie down strap from the passenger side floorboard where they live. I looked through the windshield to see if the mirror was still holding. This is a habit that has formed over the years. It was still firmly in place. As I walked over to the far side of the truck I noticed that my hood ornament was facing backwards. It's the old ram head ornament and it's probably worth more than the truck. It moves pretty easy but it was odd to find it backwards. We don't have any kids in the neighborhood and the truck lives at the front of my driveway, normally blocked in by several other vehicles. So, I turned the ornament around. As I did, I heard a slight thud. My rearview mirror fell off.
I know it sounds silly, but it really creeped me out.
I have a 1989 Dodge D150 that looks like death warmed over and has 340K miles on it. My MIL's boyfriend passed away and left everything to her. The truck looked like hell, didn't run, and needed to be moved. She asked if I wanted it, and I said yes. He had never gotten the thing to run more than a few weeks at a time. I found the old ratty ground cable had about 15 ohms of resistance. I fixed it for a few dollars and I've driven it for about half the mileage on the odometer. Over the years I have only fixed things that broke when said problems kept it from going down the road. I use it to haul building supplies and make runs to the land fill. That's it. Did I mention it looks like hell.
The truck has one nagging issue. The rear view mirror falls off all of the time. This is a glue on mirror. I have fixed these on several cars over the years and feel I have a pretty good handle on the process and yet, I can only keep a mirror on the windshield of this truck for a few months at a time, sometimes not even that long. I have even purchased a lighter mirror. I have used the attachment kits with proper glue, and I've also tried super glue and epoxy. I have cleaned meticulously with acetone, denatured alcohol, and the packets in various kits following the directions exactly. I'm at a loss. At this point I have just resigned myself to the fact that I will have to re-attach this mirror every few months. Last Saturday, I put the mirror on again after it had been holding on for most of the winter. I told myself I did a spectacular job and was assured it would hold forever this time.
So now the weirdness this morning. I went into my driveway from my garage and I was walking up to the truck to get a tie down strap from the passenger side floorboard where they live. I looked through the windshield to see if the mirror was still holding. This is a habit that has formed over the years. It was still firmly in place. As I walked over to the far side of the truck I noticed that my hood ornament was facing backwards. It's the old ram head ornament and it's probably worth more than the truck. It moves pretty easy but it was odd to find it backwards. We don't have any kids in the neighborhood and the truck lives at the front of my driveway, normally blocked in by several other vehicles. So, I turned the ornament around. As I did, I heard a slight thud. My rearview mirror fell off.
I know it sounds silly, but it really creeped me out.
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